RIP...

... or, in some cases, just go away.

Here's a partial list of notables we said goodbye to this year:

Shelley Winters, 1920 - Jan 14 (85 years old)
Coretta Scott King, 1927 - Jan 30 (78)
Betty Friedan, 1921 - Feb 4 (85)
Don Knotts, 1924 - Feb 24 (81)
Dana Reeve, 1961 - March 6 (44)
Slodoban Milosevic 1941 - March 11 (64)
Caspar Weinberger 1917 - March 28 (88)
Lloyd Bentsen, 1921 - May 23 (85)
Aaron Spelling, 1921 - June 23 (83)
Steve Irwin, 1962 - September 4 (44)
Ann Richards, 1933 - September 13 (73)
P.W. Botha, 1916 - October 31 (90)
Ed Bradley, 1941 - November 9 (65)
Jack Palance, 1941 - November 10 (87)
Milton Friedman, 1912 - November 16 (94)
Robert Altman, 1925 - November 20 (81)
Jeane Kirkpatrick 1926 - December 7 (80)
Augusto Pinochet, 1915 - December 10 (91)